This story encapsulates all that is wrong with Europe. Jack up fees and taxes on the basis of junk science to finance the continual engorgement of the bloated government leviathan, then give some of it back to hand-picked wealthy cronies when it becomes obvious it will drive some out of business. Not the slightest concern for taxpayers, nor for small businessmen with no pals in Brussels. These people are awful and I hope to live to see them hanging from lamp posts in a free and independent England.
Is this an excerpt out of Atlas Shrugged?